A Cultural History of Food

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Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of fo...

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Each year a flood of visitors come to this decadant, elegant country, to enjoy the pleasures of 'la dolce vita'. Italy has drawn travellers in sear...

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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

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Food sets the tempo of life in the Bayou State, where people believed in eating locally and seasonally long before it was fashionable. In Hungry fo...

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DescriptionAmerican Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O is a deeply researched and entertaining sur...

An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and loveIs Italian olive oil re...

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art h...

Reducere. Upstate New York is the birthplace of many of America's favorite foods. The chicken wing was born in a bar in Buffalo, the potato chip originated i...

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

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